Neighbors would like me to quiet down my 22 lr when I shoot 100 yds. off bench. One option I've read is to have muzzle inside an insulated box. Opening big enough to sight thru box or tube. Box about 2 feet long. Any other ideas or suggestions re. insulation or ways to set this up? How far muzzle inside box, how long box. Box inside would have to be around 6 inches to allow for scope to have clear view. How much insulation thickness??

Yup, shoot through a row of old tyres (through the middle of them), poke the muzzle in as far as you can comfortably. Big tyres that fit small rims the best option, larger expansion chambers. I heard that the IRA used this system.

How about a piece of Sonotube, the fiberboard concrete form, limed with Fiberglas insulation? I'm about to make one about 18 " in diameter and maybe 5 ft long. The insulation would be maybe 3 inch thick non-covered Fiberglas. I may use just cardboard to start.

BTW you can download lots of decibel meter aps but I don't know if they work well for short, loud sounds.

300m Rifle Match. The shooters shoot through sound dampening,deadening,absorbing, etc tubes. I don't know what material they were using.

Shooters are in a building several meters above the ground. Targets are on top of another building. In between the shooters and the targets are some other buildings, a parking lot and a street open to traffic with cars, trucks, and bicyclists passing.

300m Rifle Match. The shooters shoot through sound dampening,deadening,absorbing, etc tubes. I don't know what material they were using.

Shooters are in a building several meters above the ground. Targets are on top of another building. In between the shooters and the targets are some other buildings, a parking lot and a street open to traffic with cars, trucks, and bicyclists passing.

Just another day in Switzerland.

Wow!! This would never fly here in the US. Way too many regulators would put the brakes on this. I can almost hear the personal injury attorneys salivating as they line up.

(24) The terms “firearm silencer” and “firearm muffler” mean any device for silencing, muffling, or diminishing the report of a portable firearm, including any combination of parts, designed or redesigned, and intended for use in assembling or fabricating a firearm silencer or firearm muffler, and any part intended only for use in such assembly or fabrication.

In Ohio, at least, it takes the signature of one's local Sheriff, some ATF paperwork, and $200 to possess, and use a silencer. It is not a difficult task to accomplish for honest, law abiding, citizens:

(24) The terms “firearm silencer” and “firearm muffler” mean any device for silencing, muffling, or diminishing the report of a portable firearm, including any combination of parts, designed or redesigned, and intended for use in assembling or fabricating a firearm silencer or firearm muffler, and any part intended only for use in such assembly or fabrication.

(24) The terms “firearm silencer” and “firearm muffler” mean any device for silencing, muffling, or diminishing the report of a portable firearm, including any combination of parts, designed or redesigned, and intended for use in assembling or fabricating a firearm silencer or firearm muffler, and any part intended only for use in such assembly or fabrication.

This post is not intended as legal advice and should not be relied on as such.

Reading these to include sound-deadening material would be beyond ludicrous. If so interpreted, any shooting range with any sort of insulation, carpet, or other sound-deadening material in its booths or on its walls would be subject to NFA restrictions. I think you'd be hard-pressed to apply NFA regs to any device that wasn't attached to a firearm. Have you got any case law indicating otherwise?

The general idea is that if its not mounted to the firearm, then the ATF has no intrest in regulating it.

As a suppressor owner, I can say for certain that there is great utility in owning and using such a device. It pains me the see many sanctioning bodies ruling against their use.

Further, its been implied in this thread that use of a suppressor is not appropriate on a precision rifle, which is certainly false. A properly constructed suppressor will not harm a firearms accuracy, and in many cases will improve it.

The general idea is that if its not mounted to the firearm, then the ATF has no intrest in regulating it.

As a suppressor owner, I can say for certain that there is great utility in owning and using such a device. It pains me the see many sanctioning bodies ruling against their use.

Further, its been implied in this thread that use of a suppressor is not appropriate on a precision rifle, which is certainly false. A properly constructed suppressor will not harm a firearms accuracy, and in many cases will improve it.

How does it improve accuracy, out of curiosity? I know about the legal side but not the practical, and I'm interested in it.

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